Japan’s birth rate hits alarming new low in first half of 2024 - Drop marks third year in a row that number of births fell ...

The number of births in Japan in the first half of the year came to 350,074, the lowest figure since 1969, the health ...

If the number of births falls at a similar pace in the second half of 2024, the annual total could fall below 700,000 for the ...

Japan's plummeting birth rate has ... The fertility rate in Japan, or the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime, reached a record low of 1.2 last year.

Tokyo's health ministry has pledged additional measures to boost births, while analysts say the country can't spend its way out of the problem.

The Japanese government’s plan to offer city-based women up to 600,000 yen (US$4,200) as an incentive to marry rural men was ...

The number of babies born in Japan in the first half of 2024 shrank to a record low, totaling 350,074, government data showed ...

The figure apparently reflects a decrease in the number of preschool children, stemming from the country's low birth rate.

The number of babies born in Japan in the first half of 2024 shrank to a record low totaling 350074 government data showed Friday Total births nat ...

The human population of the Earth passed 8 billion in 2022, up from 7 billion in 2011 and less than 2 billion just a century ...

Japan's budget demands hit a record for the next fiscal year, exceeding $800 billion, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, ...

South Korea continues to break its own record for having the world's lowest birth rate, which hit a fresh low last year.